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SELECTION; OR THE SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST. 1869 1872
SELECTION. 1859 1860 1861 1866

the results of Natural 1869 1872
Natural 1859 1860 1861 1866

beings— Advance in organisation— Low forms preserved— Objections considered— Uniformity of certain characters due to their unimportance and to their not having been acted on by Natural Selection— Indefinite multiplication of species— Summary. 1869
beings. 1859 1860
beings— Advance in organisation— Low forms preserved— Objections considered— Indefinite multiplication of species— Summary. 1861
beings — Advance in organisation— Low forms preserved— Objections considered— Indefinite multiplication of species— Summary. 1866
beings— Advance in organisation— Low forms preserved— Convergence of character— Indefinite multiplication of species— Summary. 1872

briefly discussed 1869 1872
discussed too briefly 1859 1860 1861 1866

the 1869 1872
it be borne in mind in what an 1859 1860 1861 1866

peculiar variations in 1869
strange peculiarities 1859 1860 1861 1866
slight variations and individual differences occurring in 1872

be borne in mind; as well as the strength of 1869 1872
vary; and how strong 1859 1860 1861 1866

CHAPTER IV.
NATURAL SELECTION; OR THE SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST.
Natural Selection— its power compared with
mans
man's
selection— its power on characters of trifling importance— its power at all ages and on both sexes— Sexual Selection— On the generality of intercrosses between individuals of the same species— Circumstances favourable and unfavourable to the results of Natural Selection, namely, intercrossing, isolation, number of individuals— Slow action— Extinction caused by Natural Selection— Divergence of
Character,
Character
related to the diversity of inhabitants of any small area, and to naturalisation— Action of Natural Selection, through Divergence of
Character,
Character
and Extinction, on the descendants from a common parent— Explains the
grouping
Grouping
of all organic beings— Advance in organisation— Low forms preserved— Objections considered— Uniformity of certain characters due to their unimportance and to their not having been acted on by Natural Selection— Indefinite multiplication of species— Summary.
HOW
How
will the struggle for existence, briefly discussed in the last chapter, act in regard to variation? Can the principle of selection, which we have seen is so potent in the hands of man, apply
under
in
nature? I think we shall see that it can act most
efficiently.
effectually.
Let the endless number of peculiar variations in our domestic productions, and, in a lesser degree,
those
in those
under nature, be borne in mind; as well as the strength of the hereditary
tendency
tendency.
is.
....
Under domestication, it may be truly said that the whole organisation becomes in some degree plastic. But the variability, which we almost universally meet with in our domestic productions, is not directly produced, as Hooker and Asa Gray